'Every model family should have a fuck-up: a family without a fuck-up is not truly a family ...' So begins the story of Uncle, one of life's most accomplished under-achievers. A morose bachelor squashed between the legacy of a dozen futile jobs and his mother's endless disapproval, Uncle remains alive to the possibility that - with a little help from booze, sex and writing - life might offer something more meaningful. Caustic, comic and gleefully honest, "Mammals" is a tale of deliverance from the dregs of a shabby modern age.